Remote Desktop Session Host

- When teaching Windows 8 or 8.1 courses…or deployment courses,…one of the topics that comes up is the…remote desktop session host.…And I get a lot of questions about how do I set that up…on Windows 8 or 8.1?…How do I make that work?…Well, I want to just, in this short module,…try to give you a quick overview…of the remote desktop session host,…its advantages in Windows 8, 8.1 environment,…and to help clarify that this is not specifically…a Windows 8 or 8.1 standalone client tool.…

It requires a server environment.…What you're really going to need is…a server 2008R2, 2012, or 2012R2,…and what you're using is the client's…remote desktop or remote app,…and I'll clarify remote app,…capability to connect to a 2008R2, 2012, or 2012R2…server that is providing remote desktop capability,…and these servers have the ability to accept…multiple remote desktop sessions simultaneously.…

So, how that plays a role for your Windows 8 or 8.1…is you're going to do a remote desktop session…to that server.…The nice part about that is, set up correctly,…